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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gets Taylor to talk?
(a) Oliver confesses to murdering Dawn.
(b) Boggs tells her the real reason for why Oliver is living with her and the children.
(c) Taylor's neighbor tells her what Oliver did.
(d) Boggs lets her know that Oliver is a murder suspect.

2. What is Ambrose wearing when Blaze arrives to give him the bad news?
(a) A three-piece suit.
(b) Swim trunks.
(c) Nothing.
(d) His pajamas and smoking jacket.

3. Why does Ambrose begin to sob when he sees that Blaze’s name was Mary Ellen Singleton?
(a) His mother’s name was Mary Ellen.
(b) He believed her when she said her name was Blaze Duvall.
(c) His sister’s name was Mary Ellen.
(d) She had such a nice name.

4. On Wednesday evening, who can Fortney not forget?
(a) His ex-wives.
(b) Blaze.
(c) The dead body floating in the water.
(d) Leeds.

5. What does Blaze plan to do if Ambrose gives her a hard time about money for the tapes?
(a) She will beg and plead.
(b) She will shoot him with her revolver.
(c) She will fight him for it.
(d) She will give up and destroy the tape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had the San Diego Yacht Club given the job of Keeper to Ambrose?

2. In Chapter 8, to what does Blaze compare the Dawn Coyotes of this world?

3. What is a rule when Anne was a vice cop?

4. What are two opposing views that come into Simon’s mind, when he thinks about Blaze and their plans to destroy the Kiwi boat?

5. In Chapter 10, where is Blaze staying?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Blaze call Simon from her hotel room?

2. Why does Ambrose kill Blaze?

3. What does Anne Zorn think about aging?

4. What does Ambrose hope for, if the Black Magic can be destroyed?

5. How does the reader learn how Dawn would be murdered?

6. Why is Ambrose’s attack on Blaze come as a complete surprise to her?

7. Why does Blaze Duvall spend most of her time in her hotel room on Shelter Island?

8. Who do the cops think murdered Blaze and why?

9. What does Blaze believe she hears outside her apartment? What makes her realize she is wrong?

10. What does Anne Zorn remember about her days as a vice cop?

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